Senior Officer: Monitoring and Evaluation at DOT Tanzania

Reports to: Country Lead and M&E Manager, DOT Tanzania

Qualifications and Experience

• Education: Master’s degree (or equivalent postgraduate qualification) in Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Economics, International Development, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Professional experience: Minimum 2 years of progressive M&E responsibility within international development or youth-focused programmes, including system design, indicator tracking, and results-based reporting.
• Digital data-collection expertise: Proven hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing mobile/online surveys on KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO, ODK Collect, or an equivalent platform, with strong command of skip logic, validation rules, and data-quality dashboards.
• Analytical & presentation skills: Demonstrated ability to translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights for diverse audiences ranging from community leaders to senior management and donors using both narrative and visual formats.
• Capacity-building: Track record of coaching staff and partners on logical frameworks, data management, and statistical or digital M&E tools.
• Data-analysis proficiency (preferred): Working knowledge of Stata and/or R (or comparable tools such as SPSS or Python pandas) for data cleaning, descriptive and inferential statistics, visualisation, and reproducible reporting (e.g., do-files, R Markdown).
• Data-visualization expertise (preferred): Prior experience building interactive dashboards in Power BI or Tableau.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Develop, implement & manage M&E systems focused on data collection (via KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO, or similar), analysis (in Stata/R), and reporting.
• To develop and maintain effective systems for the monitoring and evaluation of all DOT Tanzania’s work, to analyze the output of all evaluations and present the findings to a variety of audiences and in a format most suitable for that audience.
• To collaborate with the Programs team to ensure that data is collected, analyzed and disseminated in a timely and effective manner, contributing to program enhancement and organizational development. Close collaboration with other DOT country M&E teams, and DOT Global is also required.
• To collaborate with the data management team to implement a continuous data management system: Sourcing, implementing, systematize data reporting and digitize data analysis across the DOT Tanzania regions.
• Provide support on data analysis and any other data related support to HQ on a needs basis.
• Work closely with the Country learning team, Research Officer, Program Support Officers and other field staff to ensure M&E efforts are carried out in a systematic, timely manner and that information collected is used for reporting purposes, as well as to support organizational learning and program development.
• Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, presenting information for both Youth Leaders and external use, and efficiently manage significant amounts of data that will be collected over time.

M&E Development and Implementation:

• Assist program support officers to develop systematic and realistic monitoring plans that ensure field staff capture quantitative and qualitative data to report on project performance indicators.
• Support field staff and implementing partners in their role to collect and enter data from participants through registration databases and surveys.
• Undertake the routine field checks of the work of enumerators and other M&E-related field staff, supervise quality in the field and ensure data accuracy and completeness.
• Ensure that field staff have access to online and offline versions of all M&E tools (KoboToolbox/SurveyCTO forms, registration database, survey templates etc)
• Coordinate the implementation of baseline surveys, follow‐on monitoring and evaluation exercises for country programs
• Manage the country data; Upload data submitted to the country office into the relevant system.
• Monitor and track project outputs and report to the Program Manager on the same on a monthly/quarterly basis.
• Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E and to identify where adaptations might be needed.

Capacity Enhancement:

• Collaborate with learning team and lead capacity building of partners and staff on logical frameworks, data management, data analysis and results‐oriented programming, monitoring and evaluation methods and principles, digital data-collection platforms and statistical software, and report writing techniques and requirements for relevant donors to ensure compliance
• Collaborate with the learning team and lead capacity building of field staff on Monitoring & Evaluation.
• Coordinate the activity of the field staff M&E hub, including supporting the members to learn about M&E.
• Support the Program and Learning Manager to contribute to the development of M&E learning resources.
• Monitor the M&E space in the digital DOT community.
• Collaborate with the learning Manager to get regular learning materials for M&E staff and program staff.

Other duties:

• Participate in global/regional M&E team meetings. Contribute to ongoing M&E discussions.
• Support the Program and Learning Manager to carry out any other M&E related tasks.
• Assist in coordinating external evaluation missions from DOT global and partners.
• Participate in in-country and regional M&E team meetings and activities.
• Undertake such other responsibilities as directed by the Program Manager.
• Work in a flexible way when the occasion arises so that tasks, which are not specifically covered in the job description, are undertaken.
• Assess and take responsibility for your own performance.

Our positions are not structured narrowly and, when necessary, you may be called upon to lend your talents in areas that may not normally be associated with your position.